In early 1999 I began to
learn what it was like for the agar wood, exploring the jungle bush forest to
hunt forest wood species. Often joining the hawk hunters into the eternal
reserve forest, aimed at studying and studying how the formation of the agar
wood occurs. Here comes awareness and gain experience, that, not an easy thing
to acquire the agar wood is going through a variety of challenges unexpectedly.
Overnight in the bushes of the tree, becoming a habit, was also faced with wild
beasts and forced to traverse the forest jungle barrier.
Many years later the
extinction of wild wood trees in the wilderness will disappear, it is not
impossible. This tree is as destructive as it is to get aloes, destruction
occurs through various aspects, the opening of agricultural farms, development,
logging, mining, exploration or obtaining approval. When there is a violent
voice saying that there is still wild agar wood there, we can still support
these words, but, what is the amount of the remaining tree and how much the
amount can be earned in the year. The amount of wild agar wood production is
decreasing from year to year, wild goat hunters are forced to explore the
entire wilderness to get it, sometimes returning empty-handed. It's not an easy
job, just like the words of the elderly people who find agar wood will be rich,
an expression describes is not an easy thing, it depends on the fate of a
person or a living.
It's impossible to say
something like a phrase that we often hear that agar wood planting will produce
great results. Many of the failed entrepreneurs, only a small number of
successful entrepreneurs, were successful in the process of inoculation by the
correct factors. 90 percent of the entrepreneurs find failure, not because of
inoculation techniques but, the effect of fluid resin-triggered fluid that
results in excessive decay or destruction of tree trunks due to excessive
acidity, fouling and dehydration of liquid bacteria that are processed as a
trigger fluid.
It is possible that we may mistaken
the formation of agar wood due to anti-illness, anti-microbial, pathological
infection, non-pathological and anti-reaction of the tree. Here's the beginning
for us to think beyond our minds, the factor that our minds never thought to
be, that, the formation of the aloes is very complicated to our intellect.
However, this factor is important for us to study that natural agar wood
formation occurs through organism attack or fungal and anti-illness attacks.
The simplest question we can describe is that agar wood is formed through
anti-illness or anti-reaction due to fungal attack.
How well does the ability
of an organism attack on this agar wood tree to be injured due to natural
disasters, harmed by the forces on the surface and the interior of the tree ?.
From the cruelty of this tree attack the anti-reactions of the resin accumulate
do the formation, although the disease attack or artificial fungal forming
resin is quite different. From the report, scientists say that no known fungal
species were found in the formation of agar wood, but there were reports
mentioning after the tests were carried out they found some fungal species in
the essential oil. So, according to the information from their studies, we can
make assumptions about the formation of agar wood due to fungal attack.
I love to research and
often do such factor research, as it is to practice out of the box, the main
thing is how the formation of agar wood is through force coaching. The
expression of words it describes is a very simple factor, the technique of
injection of fungal liquid or in the pain of the agar wood tree is able to
produce agar wood. this factor is always presentable every time the seminars
and courses are organized by the technician of the agar wood. Although it is an
information that can be used as a theory. However, for its improvement,
research for the study should be done in detail.
Agar wood is a diseased
wood, the wood that has been attacked by pathologists through organisms, is
produced through anti-microbes, anti-illnesses that have been harmed by human
intervention, injured by nature and the help of insect attacks. This factor is
very important for us as researchers, studying how the formation begins, how
the reaction of this tree's defenses, how the oleo resin is able to collect it
harden the wood from the fading color to the brown, how long its maturity
process and how it can form into pieces and solid.
Oleo resin accumulation is
associated with increased infection attacks and "aging" early
infections. Oleo resin will spread to form a dark-colored infection site to
smell the "Agar". Through microscopic research found that in aromatic
oleo resin aromatic wood are mainly in floem. The infected wood intensity
becomes more prominent as oleo resin, in the natural population of about 20-30%
of infected plants and produces commercial agar wood of artificial
inoculation.
I invite you to think
outside the box, we try to combine theories, factors and practicality by
thinking in thought. Let's imagine how oleo resin is able to accumulate after
parasitic infections occur on this tree, is the tree experiencing allergies,
the tree will die and how long allergic will occur ?. From the understanding or
which we often hear, the theory says that the agar wood tree will produce agar
wood after injury. Does this tree form a agar wood after being harmed without
an organism attack?
I briefly explain here
about the production of agar wood through the process of inoculation.
Basically, the fungus injected the purpose of harming the tree trunk, this
injury is left open to stimulate the tree producing resin from woody tissue.
This inoculation method is different, depending on the assumptions and size of
the hole in which the wound is trodden. The size of the hole is usually 5 mm diameter
drill hole in the agar wood tree. Number counts are performed on tree trunks
according to assumptions and compatibility of fluid oleo resin triggers employed
by an entrepreneur.
Among the common inoculation
techniques practiced by entrepreneurs, including nailing metal, blocking bamboo
stick, ICU technique, sweeping, injection and infused. The process of
physiological process of agar wood production begins when the clauses that push
the microbes into the woody tissue. In order to determine this living tree, the
use of microbial cells of the woody tissue as a source of energy and food,
absorption occurs gradually, the loss of this fluid cell will reduce the
intensity of metabolic processes in woody tissues. The cells that have been
eaten by microbes will develop the collection of dead cell tissue and end the
formation.
As an anti-inflammatory
response, the leaves of the leaves turn yellow and fall, according to the usual
factors the tree will retake. Physically the branches of branches and twigs are
getting dry and the bark is broken and therefore easy to pull the skin into breaks.
This biological phenomina explains how this tree reacts to the formation of
agar wood. In a simple sense, agar wood is developed by the tree reaction
results due to pathogenic infections, injuries and stress. With the purpose of
getting a large quantity and quality of agar wood, it is usually left over for
5 years. The purpose of fungus is an important process to stimulate the
production of agar wood and must be done with caution, as long as the failure
occurs can cause tree mortality.
This condition is likely to
be caused by the use of wild fungus as oleo resin triggers. Violent fungi can
cause trees that are cruelly attacked and instigated on tree mortality. One of
the problems in inoculation may also be related to inoculation fungal failure
to react because each tree species exhibits a relatively different reaction.
The failure is also by the incompatibility of pathogenic injections in the
tree. The suitability of microbial inoculation with trees is an important
factor to be met. Therefore, to determine the success of the inoculation
process is to know pathogen microbe as a microbes to suit the species of the
tree.
One month to experience
allergies, pale change occurs, followed by darker shades to yellow-brown
discoloration after 3 months, forming a dark brown color within 8 - 10 months
and will change to black within 20 months, giving a scent when burned.
Comparisons between treated or injured trees at 10, 15 and 20 months between
these injuries are different. The results show that cut-out wounds use chisel,
screw holes and removal of bark on the stem provide a dark brown color,
yellowish to dark brown discoloration of injuries, while the spikes planted on
the stem give a dark discoloration, giving only a slight change of color.
This study is not novel, it
started over half a century ago by international institutions undertaking
artificial inoculation research. Both physical and chemical pressures such as
mechanical and induced injuries have long been practiced in order to increase
the yield of agar wood and fungal inoculation. The specificity of fungal
infections is a minor crustacean formation of the physiological state of the
plant, no immune response and the presence of the triggers. So that the
production of agar wood can be a diverse range of prospects in Southeast Asia.
Planting new Aquilaria stems and wild Aquilaria trees and appropriate and
inoculated selection should be the main objective. This approach is a
discipline initiated with the help of forestry experts, mycologists,
biochemistry and microbiology to achieve the goal. Thank you.